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Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IV

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xxiii<br />

Politics and Religion<br />

The Arts<br />

1646<br />

1648 Peace <strong>of</strong> Westphalia ends Thirty<br />

Years’ War.<br />

Dutch independence formally<br />

recognized<br />

1649 Execution <strong>of</strong> Charles I <strong>of</strong> England<br />

1650<br />

1651 The Netherlands: Republican<br />

statesman Jan de Witt in power<br />

English Civil War ends<br />

1655<br />

1656 Velasquez, Las Meninas<br />

1658<br />

1660 Velasquez d.<br />

Science and Technology<br />

<strong>Philosophy</strong><br />

Bacon, De Augmentas Scientiarum 1623<br />

Sanches d.<br />

Gassendi, Exercitationes paradoxicae 1624<br />

Geulincx b.<br />

Cordemoy b.<br />

1626<br />

Bacon d.<br />

Robert Boyle b. Bacon, New Atlantis 1627<br />

Harvey, Concerning the Motion <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Heart and Blood<br />

c. 1628 Descartes’s Regulae ad<br />

directionem ingenii written<br />

1628<br />

Kepler d. 1630<br />

1631<br />

Galileo, Dialogue on the Two Chief<br />

World Systems<br />

Spinoza b.<br />

Locke b.<br />

La Forge b.<br />

1632<br />

Galileo condemned by the Inquisition<br />

1633<br />

for upholding the Copernican system<br />

Académie Française founded 1635<br />

Descartes, Geometry, Optics, Descartes, Discourse on Method 1637<br />

Meteorology<br />

Galileo, Discourses on Two New Malebranche b. 1638<br />

Sciences<br />

Campanella d. 1639<br />

Hobbes, The Elements <strong>of</strong> Law 1640

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